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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-07-09 09:04 PM
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If Escher had an orgasm, it would look like this:

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Strong Atheist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-07-09 10:32 PM
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1. Very nice! nt.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 12:05 AM
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2. Tesseract?
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 09:33 AM
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3. Mesmerizing! That would make a cool avatar.
(If I only knew how to do that!) Thanks!
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 09:35 AM
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4. Who is Escher?
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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 09:38 AM
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5. The artist who did the tessellations.
M.C. Escher
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 09:42 AM
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6. OK, I was too embarrassed to ask what a "tessellation" was
so I googled it (A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps). Thanks, now I have some idea what's going on.

:dunce:
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-08-09 10:19 AM
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7. that jams my brain just to look at....
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